I want a man

[Crawley]

Yeah, I can troubleshoot backwards and in heels!

RENT reference FTW.

[rose_metal_nz]

I work in a mainly male (think 90+%) staffed helpdesk for a telco and the first few "i want to speak to a man who knows what he's talking about" type calls would throw me for a loop.
I got over it
Funny enough, I still get irritated when I fix something for a women and I get the whole "ha, takes a WOMAN to get things right, huh? huh? huh?" comments.
Altho TBH the biggest bane of my existence is other women that will say, to me, another woman, "oh, that's too technical (checking if it's plugged in is too technical??) I'll get a man on the phone".
Grrr.

[dalesys]

One of the girls who impressed me most when I were a twerp was the one in my summer high school electronics class in 1968. Impressed me enough that I named my first daughter after her.

But then, my mother is a genius (graduated HS at 15) while starting a month late & ending a month early each year, and so are the four younger sisters I grew up with.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Speaking of a Highschool classes, let's talk middle schoolers (junior high).
I'm going out on a limb and saying that at least half of the parents I met had either
A:no idea how technical the courses were (vocational tech meant nothing to them)
or
B: were stunned that we weren't all wearing buisness suits like M (mr.awesome)
or
C: that there were male/female teachers there, just as many thought there should only be men as there were that didn't want male teachers

*sigh*